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unstale en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + stale.

Meanings

1. Not stale; fresh.
   • That final image is Romantic just as Wallace Stevens thought the romantic should be — that is, unstale and unspent, excitingly drawn from the present yet impossible to grasp without a sense of a child as not trailing Wordsworthian or Rousseauist clouds of glory. 2007, Michael O'Neill, The All-Sustaining Air, page 51:
   • He hurried away up the beach, leaving Elizabeth alone with George, who smelled like sun and salt and unstale sweat . 2014, Paul Di Filippo, The Great Jones Coop Ten Gigasoul Party, page 51:
   • Along the road to Anywhere, when each day had its story; When time was yet our vassal, and life's jest was still unstale; 1907, Robert William Service, The Spell of the Yukon, and Other Verses, page 123:
   • ...they were her lovers, and when they went to war, it was for glory to lay before the altar of that unchaste unstale bed” (896). 1954, William Faulkner, A Fable:

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